Chapter 2. New features and enhancements

With this release, the devworkspace-webhook-server deployment options are available in the global DevWorkspaceOperatorConfig (DWOC) including: replicas, pod tolerations and nodeSelector.

These configuration options exist in the global DWOC’s config.webhook field:

apiVersion: controller.devfile.io/v1alpha1
kind: DevWorkspaceOperatorConfig
metadata:
  name: devworkspace-operator-config
  namespace: $OPERATOR_INSTALL_NAMESPACE
config:
 routing:
   clusterHostSuffix: 192.168.49.2.nip.io
   defaultRoutingClass: basic
 webhook:
   nodeSelector: <string, string>
   tolerations: <[]tolerations>
   replicas: <int32>

apiVersion: controller.devfile.io/v1alpha1
kind: DevWorkspaceOperatorConfig
metadata:
  name: devworkspace-operator-config
  namespace: $OPERATOR_INSTALL_NAMESPACE
config:
 routing:
   clusterHostSuffix: 192.168.49.2.nip.io
   defaultRoutingClass: basic
 webhook:
   nodeSelector: <string, string>
   tolerations: <[]tolerations>
   replicas: <int32>

With this release, when you start a cloud development environment (CDE) from a URL, you are asked if you trust the authors of the repository since creating a workspace from unknown or untrusted sources could be dangerous.

Starting from this release, it is possible to configure the container image, temporary storage, memory and CPU limits when starting a CDE using the "Import from Git" flow.

With this release, you can not only set the name and email for the Git Configuration but also to upload and edit the entire .gitconfig file from the User Dashboard.

Starting from this release, you can set ignoredUnrecoverableEvents explicitly on the CheCluster CustomResource level:

apiVersion: org.eclipse.che/v2
kind: CheCluster
spec:
  devEnvironments:
    ignoredUnrecoverableEvents:
    - FailedScheduling
    - FailedMount

apiVersion: org.eclipse.che/v2
kind: CheCluster
spec:
  devEnvironments:
    ignoredUnrecoverableEvents:
    - FailedScheduling
    - FailedMount

More details about configuring ignoredUnrecoverableEvents can be found in the official documentation.

The DisableInitContainer field has been added to the CheCluster CR. This field sets the config.workspaces.persistUserHome.disableInitContainer field in the operator-owned DWOC. This field whether the init container that initializes the persistent home directory should be disabled.

When the /home/user directory is persisted, the init container is used to initialize the directory before the workspace starts. If set to true, the init container will not be created, delegating the home persistence setup to the CDE’s first container component’s entrypoint. This field is not used if the devEnvironments.persistUserHome.enabled field is set to false.

The init container is enabled by default.